Protect your Office 365 global admin accounts right now with these three steps

Typical Office 365 subscription security breaches are based on compromising a global administrator user account. Once the credentials of a global administrator user account are known, an attacker can harvest the information stored in Office 365 and perform targeted phishing attacks.

To protect your global admin accounts, even as a small or medium business, you should do the following right now:

Create dedicated Office 365 global administrator accounts and use them only when necessary.

Configure multi-factor authentication for your dedicated Office 365 global administrator accounts and use the strongest form of secondary authentication.

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